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Creativity and the Aging Brain | Psychology Today Blogs - 0 views

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So instead of promoting retirement at age 65, perhaps we as a society should be promoting transition at age 65: transition into a creative field where our growing resource of individuals with aging brains can preserve their wisdom in culturally-valued works of art, music, or writing.
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Numerous studies suggest that highly creative individuals also employ a broadened rather than focused state of attention. This state of widened attention allows the individual to have disparate bits of information in mind at the same time. Combining remote bits of information is the hallmark of the creative idea.
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Other studies show that certain areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in self-conscious awareness and emotions are thinner in the aging brain. This may correlate with the diminished need to please and impress others, which is a notable characteristic of both aging individuals and creative luminaries.
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Finally, intelligence studies indicate that older individuals have access to an increasing store of knowledge gained over a lifetime of learning and experience. Combining bits of knowledge into novel and original ideas is what the creative brain is all about.
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Tero Toivanen on 03 Apr 09

The aging brain resembles the creative brain in several ways. For instance, the aging brain is more distractible and somewhat more disinhibited than the younger brain (so is the creative brain). Aging brains score better on tests of crystallized IQ (and creative brains use crystallized knowledge to make novel and original associations).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The aging brain resembles the creative brain in several ways. For instance, the aging brain is more distractible and somewhat more disinhibited than the younger brain (so is the creative brain). Aging brains score better on tests of crystallized IQ (and creative brains use crystallized knowledge to make novel and original associations).</div>

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Investing in the Developing Brain : The Frontal Cortex - 2 views

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But there has been one major payoff from our investigations of the brain: an increasing emphasis on educating young children, before they reach kindergarten. Decades of research have demonstrated that the cortex is astonishingly plastic at a young age and that many important traits and habits seem to solidify before the age of 4.
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Tero Toivanen on 09 Apr 09

But there has been one major payoff from our investigations of the brain: an increasing emphasis on educating young children, before they reach kindergarten. Decades of research have demonstrated that the cortex is astonishingly plastic at a young age and that many important traits and habits seem to solidify before the age of 4.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">But there has been one major payoff from our investigations of the brain: an increasing emphasis on educating young children, before they reach kindergarten. Decades of research have demonstrated that the cortex is astonishingly plastic at a young age and that many important traits and habits seem to solidify before the age of 4.</div>

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The Youth Healthline is a 24-hour, 7-day telephone service for young people aged 12 to 25 years in South Australia.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Youth Healthline is a 24-hour, 7-day telephone service for young people aged 12 to 25 years in South Australia.</div>

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AGE OF THE FATHER AND HEALTH OF FUTURE GENERATIONS - 0 views

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Be comfortable with your 'SELF'… - 0 views

What you think about, you bring about. Both analytical and holistic modalities now all finally agree on this. Our minds are our frontier at present and we are beginning to understand. New thinking ...

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The psychology of online dating - 0 views

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janettestevens on 08 May 16

Interesting look at the lack of accountability and psychology of the new age of online dating.

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Primary Health Enhancer - 2 views

As I aged I begin to feel pain in my chest. It was just recently that I have figured out that I have Ischaemic Heart Disease. There are various treatments that I could do to cure my ailment but I c...

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